Growing Community, Garden By Garden
For 50+ years, Green Guerillas has supported community gardens, youth leadership, and food and environmental justice across New York City. Join gardeners, volunteers, and youth in cultivating green space, growing food, and strengthening communities citywide.
Rooted in Community,
Growing Change
Since 1973, Green Guerillas has created, protected, and supported New York City community gardens. Working alongside gardeners, youth, and local leaders, we advocate and educate to advance environmental and food justice and strengthen community-led green spaces across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Through hands-on support, long-term relationships, and citywide organizing, we help ensure community gardens remain accessible, resilient, and rooted in the neighborhoods they serve, garden by garden.
Green Guerillas’ mission is to grow community garden by garden.
How We Support Communities
Green Guerillas works alongside community gardeners, youth, and local partners to strengthen gardens and build community power across New York City. Our work is grounded in long-term relationships and shaped by the needs of the communities we serve.
We support community gardens through access to resources, hands-on project assistance, and connections that help gardens grow and remain community-led. We invest in youth leadership by creating paid opportunities for young people to learn, lead, and contribute to their communities through garden-based work. We also bring gardeners together across neighborhoods and boroughs to share knowledge, build solidarity, and advocate for the protection of community green spaces.
Green Guerillas In the NEWS
Green Guerillas and our community partners have been featured in media stories that spotlight the power of community gardens, youth leadership, and environmental justice across NYC.
Con Edison Customer News for Summer 2023 featured a blurb about Green Guerillas’s Youth Empowerment Pipeline on their "Community Partnerships" page. The newsletter was mailed to Con Edison's 3.6 million electric customers and 1.1 million gas customers in the New York City metro area.
Green Guerillas youth were featured in a news story aired on WPIX11 in August 2022, highlighting their leadership, hands-on work in community gardens, and the impact of youth-led environmental and food justice initiatives across New York City.
Green Guerillas collaborated with WNYC for a series on NYC community gardens. This episode featured interviews with city gardeners and Green Guerillas. Julian Campbell, a YEP intern, shared his poem "Garden of Joy." Iyeshima Harris Ouedraogo and Sarah McCollum Williams spoke with host Michael Hill about the youth program's importance.
Building Healthier Communities, One Garden at a Time
